Iranian - Ibex-Shaped Vessel.

Date: circa 1000 BC

Place of creation: Iran

Object history

• H. D. Motamed, New York
• Walters Art Museum, 1960, by purchase

Exhibition history: In Search of Ancient Treasure: 40 Years of Collecting. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1978.

Description: The ribbed horn of an ibex (a type of wild goat) forms the handle of this vessel. Made for ritual use, liquid, perhaps oil, could be poured into the tail and out of the animal's mouth.